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• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  hold off on some interesting pictures I have for you so I can follow-up to the hack entry and answer some questions about it if I can. (Plus I ... easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... an image file, which I did and then polished up in an image ... birds, 2 uncategorized, and 1 bug represented in this tree. I wonder if

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out ... chillin' in my mouth. I got back to my room and decided to spend some time ... . On a sidenote, Interphase is getting ready to gear up. I can tell

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... ’t be the only thing—seeing a movie in a theater is more immersive, and I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  made were in the sections i choreographed (the irony…). my parents really ... bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of ... were probably the only conscious movements i made in the whole two hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  with "M.I.T" written on it in Hebrew. I think I ended up giving that one ... much about it. Then one fine afternoon I was in the middle of Mastering ... defeated again by that same method. I wonder if anyone in Hillel will ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... me to walk a few steps in a straight line, and my dad said I shouldn ... 't remember much about it. What I clearly remember was my mom walking in on me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  . You can see in the picture where I accidentally skipped over it because ... uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... -screen interactions between the Friends, and I'll release that sometime in the future

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  from Fountainhead or Jugghead. The "Every Important Lesson I Learned in ... same goes with movies. Yes, Cool Hand Luke is steeped in allegory and I ... "undecided" with "I don't know what I want". In other words, undecided means

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  someone. Yeah, sounds cool doesn't it? I can teach you now. Ready? If ... around. Give me anything that has application in the real world and I hate ... sailing but I have faith that everyone can pull it off with the necessary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those ... that I got up and didn't say anything at all. Elsewhere in the spacetime ... . I was startled to see one of the graduate students in my group there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... time on Admissions :)  _________ When I was in grade school, I distinctly ... time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their ... 's MCAT Organic Chemistry review; in many ways, I found the PR version of ... by taking a practice test, then slowly hone in on the topics I really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  really meant was, “How do I know more people?”, because in my experience ... . They are my cheerleaders and my muses, and I can’t imagine who I’d be ... make our deepest contributions in the lives we touch. I’ve never

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  . ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on ... my IAP, I took a class called "Spanish Incubator" that takes place in ... flamenco workshop (ole!) and eating the best patatas bravas in Madrid :)  I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... crowds, especially for big releases. The last crowd I was in that was this ... lately. Another essay I read recently talked about the conflict in Northern

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  that; can you explain it again?"; and "wait, WHAT?!" Questions I asked in ... intimate setting. How intimate? Questions I ask in ESG classes on a daily ... you can talk to them and ask questions, but in ESG it's even easier to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  've had a harsh life. Why complain? I can afford the luxury of reattaching ... -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... cetera. In the past 30 hours, I have: made my bed, eaten two grapefruit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have ... him I can hear him wailing with the most sad meows you can possibly

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015